BYU's Rudi Williams scored a game-high 26 points against Utah on Saturday, but credited the Cougars' hustle and toughness for the win. “The ugly stuff. I feel like we dominated in that department,” he said.
Sophomore big man Fousseyni Traore scores Cougars’ first 10 points as they set tone with physical play.
“I thought they out-toughed us in every aspect, and I thought their crowd really impacted that game, and we just didn’t handle some things well,” Smith said. “I thought [Traore] started out the game terrific,” BYU head coach Mark Pope said. “We were super nervous about him. I kind of wrote him off for this game, honestly, because he’s had some nagging injuries that have lasted way longer than we thought [they] would.
BYU led for 33:39 of this game, and even as Utah finally decided to be the aggressor, cutting a 15-point second-half deficit to three with 2:46 to play following a Branden Carlson layup, it never felt like the Utes were going to get over the hump.
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